What is a good meal to cook for my boyfriend?!
What is a good meal to cook for my boyfriend?
Next Friday is my boyfriend and I's 6th month anniversary. For prom he cooked me dinner (he works in a restaraunt as a cook) and he cooked steak and potatoes with a salad. I want to cook him something for our anniversary, but I don't know what to cook. I don't have much experiance with cooking, and my boyfriend is allergic to seafood. Can anyone give me some easy, but delicious, recipes? Thanks so much!!
Answers:
Search Yahoo Food, or ask any friends/relatives you have that are great cooks. Would his mom know an easy recipe that he loves?
I would say...go Italian, but it all depends on what kind of food he likes best.
You could even have a pasta dish, pasta salad, or salad be the main dish and just add dessert.
Can you grill hamburgers? Make gourmet hamburgers with fruit salad and french cut fries, for example.
It doesn't have to be complicated...just full of love.
The simpler it is....the smaller chance of you having problems preparing it.
Good luck!
Steak n Frites also A-1 Sauce
I hope this helps
SWEET AND SOUR PORK CHOPS
3 lbs pork chops
4 onions, diced
1 can pineapple chunks
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 1/2 cups water
1 can water chestnuts
1 green bell pepper
salt and pepper, to taste
In a dutch oven or large skillet, brown the pork chops. Add onions, juice from the pineapple, vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, ginger, salt and pepper.
Cover pan and simmer for 1 hour or until pork chops are tender.
Set pork chops aside.
Combine cornstarch and water, then stir into pan; add water chestnuts, bell pepper, and chunks of pineapple. Bring to a boil and cook until sauce has thickened to desired consistency. Add pork chops and cook until heated through.
Serve over white rice, pasta, or noodles.
Spaghetti and a salad with Italian bread. That's an easy meal to prepare. Good luck.
strawberries and whip cream....with your body as the plate.
Try spagettie (sorry, i know i spelt it wrong!)
for my sauce, i use tomato sauce, 1lb ground beef, garlic, garlic salt, brown sugar, pepper, onions, and olives
good luck!
We've cooked chicken a certain way for a long time (ever since we were kids and it's a recipe I had my neice help me with before so i know it's pretty simple....
PRE-HEAT OVEN 350
*put a piece of ra chicken on a piece of aluminum foil
*put some pre mixed stuff(make like it says on the box just not cooking it use warm water instead)on the piece of chicken
*put some raw veggies on the stuffing(onions,mushrooms,carr...
*roll the chicken up in the foil like a packet...
*place in bakign pan
Repeat until you have all the chicken dont you wanna cook...and bake check after 45 mins I would use a meat thermometer if i was you unless you think you can cut into one an konw it's not pink
Boneless chicken cooks faster than chicken with bone-in
very easy, little clean up, not many dishes used...
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Buy one of the roasting chickens at the store(they have built in timers that pop up when it's done)butter all the skin with a stick of butter(throw out any unused part) and sprinkle seasoning ALL over the buttered parts sazon or garlic and pepper are good but just stroll down the seasoning isle to pic for yourself...stuff it with stuffing pop it in the overn and let it do it's thang....you can searve cranberry sauce and broccoli and cheese sauce wiht it....If you cant find a big thing of broc and cheese you can use frozen broccoli(boiled and drained) and a jar of ragu double cheddar cheese sauce
It's ok if i dont get best answer but you should save the recipesin case you need them at a later time they are pretty easy...lol..last but not least if you have comcast you can try cooking on demand
Try this simple recipe: lay thawed boneless skinless chicken breasts in a 13x9 baking pan and pour zesty Italian dressing (use the zesty, not just the regular) so the chicken is about half way covered. Next slice roma tomatoes, mince garlic, and sliced onion and arrange on top of chicken. Sprinkle with mixed Italian spices and pop in a pre-heated over for 45 minutes at 350. Take it out and then sprinkle shredded mozzarella or colby jack or whatever his favorite cheese is on top and bake another 10 minutes. No problem. Very moist and flavorful.
Try my artichoke dip as a appetizer.
2 Cans of artichoke hearts (Minced) 1 Tablespoon of Garlic, One Cup of Mayonaisse, and cover top with fresh parm. cheese. Mix all ingredients first. Than microwave for 5 minutes and serve with big croutons or bread type crackers.
I also found some recipes on this website.
if u want to make something easy (at least for me and im not a cook) try doing a barbicue because it tastes yummy and looks like u did a lot but really u didnt. (try to impress him ;) )
lol... i actually agree with the whole sphagetti things... guys love stuff like that, plus as a cookk, they don't care, as long as you do it the right way...just show some love with that pasta sauce you are goin' to make :)
hey you know what?! what about if you guys make fresh pasta together...lol...it's really not that hard to me... you guys can have fun doin' it together: check this recipe we use....
cavatelli: (from an old blog of mine)
Recipe:
1 3/4 pounds of all-purpose flour
2 pounds ricotta cheese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ricotta_che...
1 whole egg
1/4 cup chopped herbs of your choice
In your kitchen aid (http://www.kitchenaid.com/catalog/catego...
categoryId=310) with the "paddle attachment" (if you don't have a
kitchen aid you can do it by hand), combine the cheese , herbs and
the eggs and cream
(http://busycooks.about.com/library/gloss...
together. Then with the "hook" or "paddle" kitchen aid attachment :
add flour little by little. Till you have it all combine. (Want to do
this by hand? Check out the paragraph below "By Hand")
Now it's not done, your next step is to take it out of the machine
place it on a DRY, FLOURED flat surface and begin to combine with
your hands. When it is, split the dough into two and form into balls.
Cover each ball with plastic wrap, ziploc bag or in a bowl with a wet
towel. Chill in your cooler for atleast an hour.
(BY HAND: Pour the flour on a flat dry surface. Make a well(a whole)
in the middle of the flour add the ricotta, egg and herbs. Mix the
ricotta, egg and herbs with your hands and combine. Then slowly had
the flour around the mixture into mixture. Keep doing this till all
the dry flour is in the mixture. Mix the dough til combine, you don't
want to over work it, or the cheese will melt)
Remove the dough from the cooler, only the first half. Split the
dough into eight equal pieces. Now roll it like play-dough :) You are
trying to form logs or bread sticks. You want them to be 1/2 inch
thick. Take your knife and cut the logs into 3/4 inch pieces. Usually
cavatelli look like gnocchis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gnocchi)...
with fork imprints. You can take each piece and roll fork imprints on
each....if you wish.
TEST YOUR DOUGH: boil some salted water and add atleast 5
pieces.Fresh pasta doesn't really take long to cook, remove the pasta
after 3-4 minutes and taste it.
Well when done rolling out all your dough and cutting into pieces,
cook your first batch. (hey if you don't want to use all of
it...freeze it) Lay on a flat sheet pan or cake pan, and freeze til
stiff, then transfer to ziploc bags.
Oh yeah, dough can change with temperature, when workin' with your
dough, trying rolling with your fingers, instead of our palm where
you hold more heat :)
I have two favorite ways to eat cavettelli in such a simple way:
BLUE CHEESE SAUCE
In a saute pan, pour 1 1/2 cup of heavy cream, let simmer. Add 1/2
cup of blue cheese and pepper. (some cheese tend to be salty, so i
suggest you taste it first before adding your salt). Add your fresh
raw pasta to the cream and slowly cook through :)
PARMESAN SAUCE
Melt some butter, add your cooked pasta and toss with parmesan cheese
and season .
Yeah...easy pasta, i love it and hope that you will too, any
question...always ask :)
chicken
My husbands favorites are Tacos (fried tortillas not boxed), spaghetti and anything chicken related.
For the first meal I ever cooked for him I cooked 2 cornish game hens with stuffing. They were delicious and it was the first time I had ever done it.
I took the hens, washed them, patted them dry, buttered them liberally inside and out and lightly seasoned them with salt and pepper and then stuffed them and placed them breast side down in a baking dish.
If I remember correctly I cooked them covered with foil at 350 or so. I then uncovered them toward the end so they could brown. The package should give you some directions or you could google "Cornish Game Hen Cooking Directions" for specifics.
I served white corn and salad and dinner rolls with the hens and stuffing. (I used a box of thanksgiving style stuffing and followed the directions on the box adding poultry seasoning)
Instead of stuffing the birds you could bake the stuffing in a baking dish and stuff the hens with a quarter of an onion and a peice of celery to add flavor that way.
This is a delicious cold weather dish as it requires you to heat up the house (oven use) so you may want to consider homemade tacos or spaghetti in order to not heat the house up with the oven.
Good luck and congrats.